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Re: how to show ascii number of a character
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Romain FRANCOISE |
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Re: how to show ascii number of a character |
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Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:19:50 +0100 |
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Zimmen Gnauh <yah00204052@yahoo.com> writes:
> Is there any emacs function that can show a the ascii number of a
> character? i.e. you enter a character, and it shows a number. For
> example, enter character D, it will show 68, or in octal, binary or
> other forms.
Add this to your ~/.emacs:
(defun zg-char-to-ascii ()
"Show the ASCII number of a character."
(interactive)
(message (number-to-string
(aref (read-from-minibuffer "Type a character: ") 0))))
... and do M-x zg-char-to-ascii.
Cheers,
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